Subject: Re: Membership info

From: alan bartky <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 93 13:40:19 PDT

Himanshu -

Here is the agenda and request for info for the connect/disconnect working
group.

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Fellow Connect/Disconnect Working Group Members:

It is time to get started on our noble task to resolve connect and disconnect
sequences for Data Link Switching.  This message contains a proposed agenda
and a proposed set of goals for our group.  Please read and comment on ASAP.
We have a lot of work to do in our group and not a lot of time to do it.
Remember that we need your support in order to reach the noble goal
of being able to interoperate SNA and TCP/IP between all of our
companies' products.  So let's get going.

To start the discusion off, here is my proposed agenda and goals for the
group:


Proposed agenda for Connect/Disconnect Working Group of Data Link Switching
(DLSw) Special Interest Group (SIG).

All schedule items indicate the date of completion of the proposed
agenda item.  All deadline dates are a Friday unless otherwise specified.

Date    Item

7/5-9   Agreement on agenda and Working Group Action Items.  Any "ready
        to go" documents should be submitted.  Agreement on goals for 
        document to be submitted/discussed at the next APPN Implementors
        Workshop (AIW).

7/12-16 Initial discussions of RFC 1434.  Questions and Answers between
        parties on differences, advantages and disadvantages between
        techniques.  Formal Submissions/Proposals to be submitted.

7/19-23 Email Discussions of Formal Proposals.  Goal to reach
        consensus on basic technical methods proposed and start of 
        detailed work on working group document for connect/disconnect
        sequences.  Edited Formal Submissions (based on comments) to be
        submitted.

7/26-30 Final discussions on proposals.  Goal to have first draft document
        by Friday.

8/2-6   Discussion/ Comments on first draft of Connect/Disconnect document.
        Technical, Editorial, Content.  New submissions to be additions
        changes to the document.  Goal to have second draft document
        by Friday.

8/9-13  Discussions/Comments on Second Draft Documents.  New submissions 
        at this point should be only to aid in completion or clarification
        of the work in progress.  Goal to have review copy of final Draft 
        by Friday.

8/16-20 Discussions on Final Draft.  Changes to the document should
        be editorial in nature.  Edited final draft ready to go by Friday.

8/23-27 Final Discussions, Document submitted to the AIW.  (Note: This
        is also the week of fall Interop).

8/30-9/3 Initial feedback from the AIW (non connect/disconnect members)
        Answers from Group members to the AIW.  Any discussion within
        working group as needed.  Blatant errors (editing or technical)
        to be corrected by group consensus.  Any final changes to be
        resubmitted to AIW by Friday.  (NOTE:  THIS IS THE TWO WEEK
        FINAL DEADLINE PRIOR TO THE NEXT AIW).

9/6-17  (Two weeks)  Open discussion period, Questions/Answers to rest of
        AIW.  Any proposed changes to the document will be logged and 
        presented in open forum at the AIW.

9/21-23 AIW Meeting, Raleigh NC.


Proposed Goal for Group:

The Goal for the group is to agree upon, and document Connect and Disconnect
methods for interoperation of SNA/LLC, SNA/SDLC and NETBIOS Acess Networks
with TCP/IP Backbone Networks.  It will allow the following connectivity

SNA/LLC  to SNA/LLC
SNA/SDLC to SNA/LLC
SNA/LLC  to SNC/SDLC
SNA/SDLC to SNA/SDLC
NETBIOS  to NETBIOS

NOTE: Generic LLC to LLC is not proposed as a goal.  If it turns out
that it can be easily added, or it it "falls out" as a natural part of
the design, then it will be added.  All four possible SNA combinations are
shown above to illustrate the fact that "any-to-any" SNA connectivity is
the goal.

For SNA Access, the design will allow connectivity for PU1, 2, and 2.1
devices (again if its easy or it falls out, it will be added).

For SNA Access, multiple SAPs will be allowed (other than the default SAP
of 4).  This includes cases where the SAPs are not the same number (e.g.
DSAP = 4, SSAP = 8).

All Connect and Disconnect flows and State machines will be fully documented.
Formal Diagrams, Tables, and example flow diagrams will be used.  Example
flow diagrams will show the entire end-to-end sequence (i.e. both ends and
the middle will be shown).

All work submitted to the group will be considered "public".  Due to the
nature of the group, its' organization, and the nature of the email exploder,
No information can be kept confidential.

All work to be done within the group will be conducted via email using
the Internet.  Phone calls between members should be done only when
absolutely necessary.  Remember this is a public forum, and will work best
when all members can comment, contribute and work together.


Looks like I will personally be on the road this week at one of our
joint technology partners.  I will either check in with my mail or have it
faxed to me.

I look forward to working with you all.  I beleive we have the most
interesting task of all of the working groups, and our collected
work will do great things for our industry.

Alan K. Bartky
Manager of Technology
Sync Research Inc.
[email-masked]
(714)588-2070

P.S.  If you are on the list.  Please send email to the group with the
following information:

Your Name
Your Company
Your Email Address
Your Phone Number
Your Status as an Active or Auditing Member.

Note: I expect "active" members to be active!

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Regards,
Alan K. Bartky
([email-masked])
Sync Research

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From: [email-masked] (Susie Kim Riley)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 09:49:35 EDT

Susie Riley
Proteon
[email-masked]
508-898-2800 ext.2501
Auditing member